2 posts tagged “theatre”
It's raining again. It seems like whenever it rains I post. Funny, that.
The apartment is almost set up entirely how I want it. Still need to reconfigure the desk and figure out what to do with the spare TV. It's still woefully taking up our sitting area. It's a table, I swear.
I keep having to remind the boyfriend to throw his garbage away into the garbage cans and not leave them just sitting there. Ugh. No matter how old they get, boys are always still little children in some aspects.
I've been getting worried about money lately. It's a tad ridiculous but I've felt like I've been spending as if it were water. Inflation is such a bitch. I swear, all the diners have already updated their menus so everything is $0.25-0.50 more expensive. It doesn't seem like much, but it adds up. I'm exit-polling on Saturday so that should be at least $50 bucks, hopefully closer to $100 though.
I dropped out of my playwriting class. I decided that the screenplay I'm working on is too important to let myself be distracted by theater. We all know what happens when I let theater into my life. I just can't do it. I need as much time for the screenplay, the rest of my homework, and finding a job as possible. I solemnly swear to not let theater take over my life this semester. Amen.
I have to decide in the next two weeks who I am as a writer: a playwright or a screenwriter. Our Statement of Intents are due on April 10 and I'm the only person who is really having a hard time deciding on a concentration. I honestly love both, and I feel like I am the only one who equally sees the merits of both forms.
I'm slightly leaning towards playwriting because that seems to be where I am of late. But I'm afraid that may be because those are the classes I'm taking this semester. I'm writing a play--a musical really--about circus freaks. I'm going to Bellobration as a sort of reward for making it through last week and this upcoming week. And part of my research too, I guess.
I've been teching the Festival of New Works for the Department of Dramatic Writing. Tomorrow is going to be awful. I have Program C tech at 9:00 and then Program A performance at 7:00. I've had so much of my time eaten up by this silly festival that I haven't even had time to edit my play. I'm so exhausted, but it's kind of fun in a tear-your-eyes out sort of way. But if you want see some free ten-minute plays that may or may not be good, and which may or may not make sense, written by some people who may or may not be my friends, 8:00pm at the Tisch Building tomorrow night. I have no idea if we're "sold out" or not, but you could try calling. There's a reservation number that would most likely be revealed via Google.
Program C is a staged reading that's going up sometime this week. I slept through most of rehearsal this morning since there was nothing else to do beyond spiking the three cubes on state. From what I caught, it seems to be about homosexual polyamory that somehow ends up underwater(?). (I saw two completely disconnected scenes from it, one which was under water, while the other was full of homosexual polyamory.) It's called Octopus. Eh, if anyone's interested I throw up more information as it comes along.
Back to the Statement of Intents... I have everything all figured out except for who I am as a writer. I know where I'm going (Ghana), I know what else I'm doing (Archaeological Anthropology), and I know what I want to do after college (documentary and animation), it's just the now, the classes, the thesis I'm unsure of.
I honestly want to do both. Richard Wesley thinks I should try and do both Playwriting II and Screenwriting II next semester. I'm worried about the work load. I'm worried I'll never be able to choose one over the other. And I'm worried that by fucking off and going to Ghana, I'm not going to figure it out in time for Masterclass and Thesis.
Urgh.
